X509Certificate2.ExportCertificatePem Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates

Assembly:: System.Security.Cryptography.dll

Source:: X509Certificate2.cs

Source:: X509Certificate2.cs

Source:: X509Certificate2.cs

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Exports the public X.509 certificate, encoded as PEM.

public:
 System::String ^ ExportCertificatePem();

public string ExportCertificatePem ();

member this.ExportCertificatePem : unit -> string

Public Function ExportCertificatePem () As String

Returns

String

The PEM encoding of the certificate.

Exceptions

CryptographicException

The certificate is corrupt, in an invalid state, or could not be exported to PEM.

Remarks

A PEM-encoded X.509 certificate will begin with -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and end with -----END CERTIFICATE-----, with the base64 encoded DER contents of the certificate between the PEM boundaries. The certificate is encoded according to the IETF RFC 7468 "strict" encoding rules.

Applies to